Community News

According to Assistant Secretary Bart Thomas, the Henryton State
Hospital could be set to be demolished as soon as May. The
building that has become a target for ghost stories and a canvas
for graffiti has both asbestos and lead paint in it. The
location has been vacant since 1985. The Maryland Department
of General Services...

Piney Run Park will be holding it's 31st Annual Early Bird
Fishing Tournament, Saturday March 30, 2013. The tournament
will begin at 6 am (gates open at 5 am) and will continue until 12
noon. The top prize for the largest fish of the tournament
will be $1,000! Species to be included in the tournament will
include Striped Bass...

Sykesville, Maryland,
March 16, 2013 - Piney Run Summer Nature Camp registration
is now open to the public! PRSNC is a day camp
dedicated to promoting an attitude of awareness and appreciation
of the natural environment through fun and educational
programs and activities...

Wednesday, March 13, 2012 – Today, Sunshine Review, a national
nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency, released the
winners of the fourth annual Sunny Awards and
Carroll County was
among the winners. The award, which honors the most...

Sykesville, Maryland, March 4, 2013 - Back by popular demand,
the Spring Fever Coffee House program is returning to Piney
Run Nature Center on Friday, March 15, 2013. Please join Piney
Run Park along with the Piney Run Recreation and Conservation
Council for a fabulous night of live Celtic and Nordic music
with Wherligig...

Local Eldersburg salon, Elements of Style, held a cut-a-thon
Saturday afternoon to benefit the Benjamin Wheeler fund. The
Benjamin Wheeler Fund was setup to help a family who lost their
first grade son, Benjamin Wheeler, in the Sandy Hook tragedy.
The team at Elements of Style did 76 kids cuts in two hours
and raised over $3200...

Jack B Downs of Eldersburg, MD will be releasing his first
novel, "Buried Treasure" this month. He currently serves as
the moderator for the Eldersburg Novel and Short Story Critique
Group. "Buried Treasure" is a 370 page Mystery Novel being
published by Apprentice House. According to his official
site, "Buried Treasure" is...

Freedom Area Residents Invited To Discuss Linking Community
& Neighborhood Destinations by Foot and by Bicycle

March 13, 2013 - 7 pm - South Carroll Senior & Community
Center

Cre-a-tv will be hosting and sponsoring a live stream webcast of
TEDXEldersburgLive, Wednesday, February 27,2013. They will be
showing Sessions 4-7 which will be "Disrupt!", "Dream!", "Create!",
and "Sustain!" respectively. Session 4 will begin at 11:30am.
The event will be free and open to the public but space is
limited, so...

Sheriff Kenneth L. Tregoning is pleased to announce that
Corporal Craig Ream of the Howard County Police Department and
Sheriff’s Corporal W. Gunnar Burdt will be recognized for their
life saving actions following a serious motor vehicle collision
along Route 26 outside of Sykesville this past month. Sheriff
Tregoning will be joined by Howard...

The Board of County Commissioners is seeking business leaders
from Carroll County to represent the county on the Mid-Maryland
Workforce Investment Board (Mid-MD WIB). Commissioners appoint
directors to a three-year term. The Mid-MD WIB provides policy
guidance and oversight of the One-Stop Workforce Development System
in conjunction with local...

Maxim Kozlov has played cello in over 700 concerts around the
world, but he studied right down the road at The Peabody Institute
of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore as well as three
colleges in Russia. After enjoying his time in Baltimore, he
decided to put down roots in Eldersburg because of the Carroll
County school system and the...